135 – Abu Bakr narrated to me; Abu Mushir reported; a shaykh from the Hakam clan transmitted, saying: al-Jarrah ibn ʿAbd Allah al-Hakami—who was the foremost horseman of the people of Syria—declared, “I refrained from sins out of fear for forty years; only then did waraʿ (scrupulous piety) finally take hold of me.”